Deletes all your tweets, retweets and favorites.
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Make sure your have Python 2 installed by running this in console:
python --version
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Install required python library:
pip install python-twitter
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Download twitterwipe script:
git clone https://github.com/brunocassol/twitterwipe cd twitterwipe
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Create a temporary twitter app:
- Open https://apps.twitter.com
- Sign up with your account.
- Create a new app. The details can be bogus, your app will be private.
- Make sure the app has read/write permission and click
Regenerate My Access Token and Token Secret
button. This step is easy to miss.
- Edit the downloaded twitterwipe.py file:
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Open
twitterwipe.py
with your favorite text editorcode twitterwipe.py
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Copy these values from your created Twitter app and paste into
INSERT_HERE
placeholders in twitterwipe.py:consumer_key='INSERT_HERE', consumer_secret='INSERT_HERE', access_token_key='INSERT_HERE', access_token_secret='INSERT_HERE'
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Run the script:
python twitterwipe.py
Based on: https://github.com/olivierthereaux/oldtweets/blob/master/oldtweets.py